Viro Small(Samuel Hadley)
("Black Sam of Vermont")

BORN

1854; Buford, South Carolina
(Fought out of St. Alban's, Rutland, and Fairfield, Vermont)

HEIGHT

5-10

WEIGHT

184 lbs

Small was a champion
collar and elbow wrestler who boxed as well; He appeared often at
"Owney" Geoghegan's night house, No. 105 Bowery Street, New York;
Viro was described as an
inoffensive, good natured fellow